Literate programming is not just "documentation + code" any more than a textbook you read about Calculus is "documentation + CalculusCode" or a novel is "documentation + plot". It goes way beyond that, using literate programming you can attach an arbitrary text that accompanies the code such that fragments of your code is simply one part of the whole text. Literate programming is not just commenting (or supercommenting), if it were, you could use comments, it's a practice of simply attaching fragments of code in a separate text such that you can then later utilize that separate text the same way you utilize code. When you write a literate program, your end goal is the text and the program, not just the program. You can write a literate program, and publish it as is as a textbook, poem, blog post, documentation, website, fiction, musical notation etc... Unless you think that all human writing is documentation then literate programming is not just documentation.